“For most autistics existing in a world not built for them, anxiety is the baseline and constant background hum that their daily life has to play over.” - Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Fantasy is Social Commentary and I Love It - Witch King by Martha Wells
What Are We? - Culture: The Story of Us by Martin Puchner
Warmth in its forms - What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
I won’t bite, unless you ask really nice, but these insects might! - Please Don't Bite Me! : Insects that Buzz, Bite and Sting by Nazzy Pakpour
…he wonders, nearly seriously, if he should steal the marlin. - Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
…the generation that was born with planes, with the flights full of bags.. - The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Smell the Flowers - Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
A boy and his bird - Kozo the Sparrow by Allen Say
A thriller about grief that only made me cry a little bit - The Guide by Peter Heller
To the Bitter End - All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
What’s that sound? - Tapping Feet by Moira Rose Donohue
M for Mature - Sensor by Junji Ito
Second time is a charm - Nimona by N.D Stevenson
A Book to Kick Me Out of my Reading Funk - The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda
Check out that strong Queen - The Discovery of Chess: The Asian Hall of Fame by Phil Amara and Oliver Chin
“My child will know they are wanted and that their dad won’t leave them.” - Unexpecting by Jen Bailey
I would not have been a settler. - Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
He stole my power by being cruel. Don’t you steal it by being nice. - Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez
All we need. - All We Need Is Love and a Really Soft Pillow! by Peter H. Reynolds
CBR15 Bingo: In the Wild - Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews
Twistin the Night Away - The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly
I only finished Part I and already knew I liked it - Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems by Barbara Krasner
Younger is always dumber and wising up takes blood…and time. - Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Cozy mystery set in the 1920s with an agoraphobic heroine and a tiny dog named Presley. - The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mysteries, #1) by S.K. Golden
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
This was fun. Exhilarating. This was my chaos. - Petty (Cape & Cowl 1) by S.A. Sommers
I remember this being one of my first moments nearing adulthood, when I realized how powerful memory was — or at least it was the first time it hurt the most. And there was nothing I could do about the pain of the past — it just settled over me - The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
When the hunky country mouse meet the city mouse and really fell for him - Cuckoos Three by Cassandra Jean
CBR15 Bingo: Getaway - Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Part romance, part memoir - The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
Smashy Smash - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
An Innovative Take on a Classic Fantasy Theme - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Change Isn’t a Bad Thing - A Finer End by Deborah Crombie
This Time It’s Personal - Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Most influential murder mystery of all time? - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Cute illustrations make me happy, Part 2 - The Atlas of Amazing Birds by Matt Sewell
How we got here (to the summer of strikes) - Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
CBR15 Bingo: Dwelling - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Animal Rescue Friends gang and their furry, feathered, and flying friends - Animal Rescue Friends: Learning New Tricks: Volume 3 by Harriet Low
It’s too early to write a clever title but honestly you should have your kids read this - Travis Daventhorpe for the Win! Volume One by Wes Molebash
We always lose those who we love. - The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Franklin and Lowe - Rosalind Looked Closer: An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science by Lisa Gerin; Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe. by Kate Messner and Margaret E. Powell
Imagine all the wonders - Today I Am a River by Kate Coombs
I REALLY GOT TO GO - Marcel's Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art by Jeff Mack; A History of Toilet Paper (and Other Potty Tools) by Sophia Gholz
Two birds and a star - A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L'Engle and the Making of a Wrinkle in Time by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams; Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross (Friendship Books for Kids, Kids Book about Fear) by Samantha Haas; The Penguin of Ilha Grande: From Animal Rescue to Extraordinary Friendship by Shannon Earle.
I now have a new fish to add to my crazy fish loves! - Who's Afraid of the Light? by Anna McGregor
I get why, but I really don’t like that cover - I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand by L. Nichols
And it stuns me silent, for a moment: just how vast the gap is between who I am and how people see me. - Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Fantastic Book, Wrong Reading Mood - Witch King by Martha Wells